Notices by Neil Alexander (neilalexander@mastodon.social)

I find it's really difficult to stay on top of an open source project by myself.

The last real commit I made to Seaglass that wasn't merging a PR was in September. For weeks and weeks I worked on Seaglass, day in day out, with what seemed like unlimited motivation. Then I hit a wall, and it's been incredibly difficult to go back to. Burn-out.

Meanwhile I've been working more steadily on Yggdrasil, which is easier not least because I am not the only developer. Changes come small and often.

Using the modern web doesn't feel empowering. It feels immensely frustrating.

The web is barely usable without ad-blocking. Pages take an age to load and the content jumps around as more ads download and display. Also the ads are spying on you.

The entire JS ecosystem is dependency hell and sometimes you have to download massive JS files just to view a web page. The JS is probably also spying on you.

Worse still, JS is also probably why the Back button doesn't work properly on so many sites.

Currently preparing and testing the Yggdrasil v0.2.7 release, which we plan to make final in the next day or two.

Contains a number of new features including a session firewall for simple user-configurable endpoint security, interface-specific static peerings for multi-homed machines, improvements to the admin API and some bugs squashed.

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io
#yggdrasil #meshnet

A quick primer on the Yggdrasil #meshnet:

▶ End-to-end #E2E #encryption between nodes, always, without exception.
▶ New routing scheme based on a globally-agreed spanning tree.
▶ Adapts quickly to changes in network topology.
▶ Works on a range of platforms - including Windows!
▶ Works over existing #IPv4 or #IPv6 networks.
▶ Written in #GoLang.
▶ Should be familiar to anyone who has used #cjdns or is a part of #hyperboria.

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17305885

All testers welcome!